And if you look around for tutorials, they're all written for VBScript (or older VB). However, you may notice they're written in VBScript. If you look at Microsoft Word Scripts, you can see a bunch of examples. The last part of your script would look something like this: word = ('Word.Application') This is the modern version of writing "Word macros"-the macros can be external scripts instead of inside Word, and they don't have to be written in VB, but they look pretty similar.
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Using pywin32, you directly access the application's own scripting interfaces, without having to take control of the GUI from the user, figure out how to navigate menus and dialog boxes, etc. If this is meant to be a learning exercise, the question is which of those things you want to learn today. So, you could do this with anything from selenium for Chrome and COM automation for Word, to crafting all the WM_ messages yourself. You can do this at a low level, by crafting WM_ messages to send via pywin32 on Windows, using the accessibility APIs on Mac, etc., or at a somewhat higher level with libraries like pywinauto, or possibly at the very high level of selenium or similar tools built to automate specific apps. Some apps have nothing but the GUI, and there's no way around doing GUI automation. Or, ideally, someone else has already written Python bindings for you. Some apps have a non-GUI interface-whether that's a command line you can drive with popen, or a DLL/SO/DYLIB you can load up through ctypes. IE (but probably not Chrome) and Word both have such interfaces. On Windows, this nearly always means they a COM interface, usually with an IDispatch interface, for which you can use pywin32's COM wrappers on Mac, it means an AppleEvent interface, for which you use ScriptingBridge or appscript on other platforms there is no universal standard. Some apps are designed to be automated from the outside. So, you've taken on a very hard task-and one that would be very easy if you did it the usual way (talk to the server directly, create the text file directly, etc., all without touching any other programs).īut if you do want to interact with other apps, there are a variety of different approaches, and which is appropriate depends on the kinds of apps you need to deal with. Web browsers are messy, the timing is going to be unpredictable, etc. If what you're really looking into is a good excuse to teach yourself how to interact with other apps, this may not be the best one. Thank you everyone, whoever spend their time reading my so-long question. The whole idea of making python interact with another program is really really vague to me and I just I know that my question somehow sounds rather silly, but I really want to know how it works, the way we tell Python to regconize that this part of the Google chrome browser is the address bar and that it should paste the name of the song in it. However, I found out that it seems like I only (or almost only) learn to creat programs that work on itself (I can't tell my program to do things I want with other programs that are already installed on my computer) I've been reading (I'm still reading) several books on Python: Byte of python, Learn python the hard way, Python for dummies, Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame. Or how we tell python how to copy the lyrics as well as paste it into the Microsof Word's sheet then save it. To be more specific, I think I want to know, fox example, just how we point out where is the address bar in Google Chrome and tell python to paste the name there. I just want to know the concepts or ideas about how to use python to interact with other programs save the new text file with the name of the song.run a text editor (like Microsoft Word for instance).paste that name in the address bar and find information about the song.
open a web browser (google chrome for example).
These are what I want the program to do when I run it: I think the whole process should boil down to couple of things below. I'm having the idea of writing a program using Python which shall find a lyric of a song whose name I provided.
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